Chapter Five

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The Han Dynasty needed talismans to travel far, and the "biography" was made of cut bamboo joints, and the content was written on it after drying, which is equivalent to the "road guide" and "customs clearance document" of later generations.

Ordinary people can temporarily apply for road biography, while officials have long-term valid biography. However, depending on the level of the Yamen that issued the biography, the range that the official biography can go to is also different.

Liu Bei is a county lieutenant, and his official biography was issued by the county, so it cannot be used to leave Zhongshan County as a rule.

The incident happened suddenly, and Liu Bei was unprepared, so he could only humbly ask for advice: "I don't know which way is the best way to go to Yecheng?"

However, Li Su had already figured out the escape route a long time ago, so he replied quickly: "To go to Yecheng, there is a big lake in Julu County in the south, so it is impassable. So you can either take the southwest land route, the shortest route, or the southeast long route and water route.

I suggest taking the land route—the water route has to go through Anping and Xiabo, from the Baima Canal to Zhangshui River, and then to Ye. It is inevitable that there will be many side effects in the investigation.

On land, they enter Changshan County from Wuji County, and then go south along the Taihang Mountains. They can reach Yecheng in two or three days at a fast pace. The advantage of this road is that the bandits at the foot of the Taihang Mountains are rampant, and the government is powerless to investigate. But the disadvantage is that if you encounter bandits, it will be very difficult..."

During the Zhongping period, except for Hedong County in the south, the entire Taihang Mountains of Bingzhou were the territory of black bandits, which was a big threat to ordinary pedestrians.

Liu Bei was not surprised when he heard the words, but he was happy instead: "It's better that you are thoughtful, so let's go to Changshan. The three brothers of Bei have a little martial arts, and a small group of black mountain bandits is not a problem. Let Yunchang choose his confidantes in a while and escort them together." That's right."

Li Su reminded again: "How should we deal with the talisman? And we have to think of another reason to go out of the city to deceive people. From Zhongshan to Changshan, we have to cross the Hutuo River. Zhang Chun's soldiers and horses."

This question really troubled Liu Bei for a while, and after a while he said in a negotiating tone: "The reason for passing on the talisman and going out of the city... I think it's better to find an excuse for celebrating the funeral, and the government will be accommodating according to the usual practice.

I remembered! Didn't Zhen Yi, the patriarch of the wealthy Zhen family in Wuji County and former Cai Ling, passed away in the twelfth lunar month last year? Bei and Brother Zhen also met each other a few times, and they have never had time to go to the funeral, counting the days are less than seven days, so they will take this opportunity to go out of the city tomorrow, and play by ear. In this way, even if he does not return for a few days, the county magistrate will not immediately suspect it. "

The great man ruled the world with filial piety, and the wealthy family of a high-ranking and wealthy family died, and the patriarch died, and the white affairs were not done for seventy-nine days until the seventy-nine days, how about you?

So it's not a problem to pay homage to a person after a month and a half after his death. After all, the transmission of information in ancient times was slow.

Li Su was just surprised by Liu Bei's popularity: "I didn't expect Mr. Xuande to have friendship with the Zhen family."

Liu Bei: "We can't even talk about friendship. Bei took Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to Luoyang to sell horses. Therefore, the rich horse dealers in this county have a relationship at least once. The Zhen family is also a wealthy merchant in this county, and their goods are in Liaodong. .It's just that their family has a big career, so they don't necessarily remember me."

It doesn't matter if you don't remember, Zhen Yi is dead anyway. It was originally a neighboring county, and the people in the officialdom should all know each other.

Liu Bei said to his son: I know your father well, so come and see, and I would like to ask you to do a little favor.

Zhen Yi's son can still refute the dismissal? Do you want to raise Xiaolian?

The people of the Han Dynasty did not show face to the guests at the father's funeral, it was more serious than the Sicilian Mafia godfather did not show face to the guests at the daughter's wedding.

That's it.

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The next day was just past Mao, and the morning light was faint.

A group of people have made preparations and are waiting to leave the city.

Li Su also put on the armor of an ordinary cavalry soldier, pretending to be Liu Bei's personal soldier.

He had to conceal his identity, because if the guards of the city knew that the secretary of the post office had actually escaped, they would definitely go to the post office to check, and then they would be betrayed. Fortunately, Duyou pretended to be sick yesterday and didn't see customers, which saved Li Su a lot of trouble.

Guan Yu also brought fifteen cavalry pawns and an extra batch of war horses to ensure that one man had two horses. He packed all the weapons and armor secretly in his luggage and carried them out of the city. After all, it was too conspicuous to be fully armed in the city.

Three years ago, when Liu Bei was begging for the Yellow Turban, he collected four or five hundred brave men. Relying on the sponsorship of two horse dealer friends Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, he organized a cavalry of fifty men.

After becoming a county lieutenant, he couldn't afford to support so many people all year round. Now there are only two hundred infantry and thirty cavalry left under his command, and the rest were either killed in battle or sent away with money. Just these two hundred people are not all private soldiers, some of them are fed by the imperial court.

This time, one person and two horses were required for the journey, so Liu Bei could only ask Guan Yu to pick fifteen cavalry, and the rest stayed and made room for the horses.

Zhang Fei asked the farmer to kill a sheep and a pig overnight, deboned the meat and boiled it in a stew.

Pigs and dogs in the Han Dynasty were kept in toilets—so the six animals in the Qin and Han Dynasties always regarded pigs and dogs as the cheapest, and they called "pigs and dogs" instead of "cattle and sheep" when they cursed people. Because pigs and dogs are completely fed on excrement and wet garbage, the smell of pork is very fishy.

When Zhang Fei was preparing, he subconsciously put the mutton with three pouches and the rest of the pork in a linen bag and distributed them to his cavalry.

It seems that Zhang Fei's habit of looking down on civilians and soldiers cannot be changed for a while.

Liu Bei was careful and couldn't help complaining when he saw this: "Yide, how can you be so contemptuous of a magi! You should prepare mutton for Boya. Besides, we are generals, and we should eat the same food as the lowest soldiers."

As he spoke, Liu Bei handed his lamb belly to Li Su: "Mr. is a scholar, and I'm not used to eating pork. I'll eat this on the way."

Although he knew that this was to win over people's hearts, Li Su still felt quite fond of it.

But he couldn't look too delicate, so he said modestly: "A certain person was born in a poor family, how dare he forget his roots."

As he spoke, he took out a small piece of pork from the sackcloth bag and ate it in public.

"Day, this smell of pig is much stronger than that of the later generations... Damn, this smell is very good, I will make more prickly ash in the future." Li Su complained in his heart, gritted his teeth to calm down his emotions, and did not show the slightest abnormality.

Liu Bei sized him up, patted his shoulder, and said nothing.

Liu Bei's soldiers also saw it, and felt that this gentleman did not have the airs of other civil servants, and actually ate pork himself.

A group of people rode their horses and galloped slowly, and soon arrived at the west gate of Anxi County.

The city gate guard watched from afar, but didn't even check the talisman, but asked casually with a smile on his face, "Where is the county captain?"

Li Su was a little nervous at first. Seeing the doorman being so polite, he immediately felt relieved: This is a normal reaction. Liu Bei is a county lieutenant, and the gatekeepers guarding the city are supposed to be his subordinates. Before the news of Duyou's murder leaked out, the gatekeepers certainly didn't dare to be serious with Liu Bei.

Laws are laws, and favors are favors.

Liu Bei was also very calm, and said the line that he had already thought up: "I was chatting with a horse dealer yesterday, and I knew that brother Zhen in Wuji County passed away in the twelfth lunar month last year. Counting the days will soon be seven, so I rushed to mourn. If the county magistrate asks about it tomorrow, I will explain one or two for you."

The door official hurriedly let it go: "The matter of celebrating the hanging can't wait, the county captain please."

A group of people left the city calmly, and watched the city wall disappear into the horizon, and then they relaxed, and began to speed up their horses.

It was the first time for Li Su to ride a war horse alone, and he was a little uncomfortable at first. Liu Bei noticed it, so he walked with him in the bridle, occasionally helping him control the bridle, chatting along the way:

"After this meritorious service, what is Boya's plan? You and I share the same spirit, and both have the heart of loyalty to serve the country. If you can be promoted to the county magistrate because of your meritorious service, then I will invite Boya to be my master. I don't know what to do?"

Li Su was also taken aback. He originally wanted to help Liu, but he didn't want to look too cheap: "I hit it off with Mr. Xuande, and we will never give up. We should help each other. However, the position should be determined by the court, how can it be done privately?" Give and receive?"

Liu Bei thought about it for a while, and felt a little ashamed in his heart: "It makes sense, let's see the court's arrangement first."

"Thank you, Lord Xuande, for your understanding." Li Su also heaved a sigh of relief.

It has been three days since the end of the Han Dynasty, and Li Su has a better understanding of the current atmosphere of the times. Before, because of the inertia of the romance, he imagined the world after the Yellow Turban Rebellion as "whoever has the biggest fist is right".

But after a few days of contact, including personally experiencing the process of "UU reading www.uukanshu.com has to arrange excuses, pass on talismans, and go through official procedures after killing Duyou". Li Su finally realized that the authority of the imperial court was still very useful at least before Emperor Ling passed away.

Before that, everyone was talking about the logic of officialdom rules. Civil officials do not have the custom of conferring with each other privately, and even Xun Yu had to wait until 191 to vote for Cao.

After that, it was switched to the era when princes competed for hegemony and had the final say when they had soldiers and horses.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were able to follow Liu Bei because they were warriors. Only low-level military officers and petty officials can rule privately during the Zhongping period.

And if Guan Zhang had become a military officer bigger than "Biebu Sima" before 190 years, then they would still have to obey the imperial court. If you want to continue to defy the appointment and follow Liu Bei, unless you resign and accept it.

Li Su's words just now showed that he respected the imperial court and paid attention to the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, it is also to plant a seed in Liu Bei's heart: this Li Boya can't be recruited as a petty official, and he may be a "guest qing" or "great sage" in the future.

Everyone is an official in the same dynasty and supports the Han family. Why are they divided among each other?

Of course, if Liu Bei really became Li Su's superior under the framework of the imperial court's appointment, then Li Su could call him lord.

Just like how Guan Yu temporarily lived in Cao Ying, explaining clearly that "surrender to Han but not to surrender to Cao", the other party will respect you even more.

Li Su also took advantage of the few years before Lingdi's death to raise his starting point as soon as possible.

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(Note: The county-level administrative units in the Han Dynasty were juxtaposed with counties and states, and Zhongshan was a state, so the chief was the prime minister of the county and the state, and the chiefs of other counties were the prefects. But for everyone's reading experience, we will refer to other counties and states later. At that time, it will no longer be subdivided. They are all called counties, and the chiefs are also called prefects. To avoid having to explain each county, there are too many words.)